“She’s doing good,” trainer
Richard Mandella said. “I know there is a lot of speed in the race, especially
that Malibu Moon filly (Kauai Katie) of Todd Pletcher’s. But I think they’ll
have to respect my filly’s speed and I’m hoping nobody will think it is worth
their while to try to take her on. I’ve got (Garrett) Gomez riding and he’s a
pro. You always like to turn it over to a pro. He’ll know what to do.”

Broken Spell – With
two straight runner-up finishes, the daughter of Broken Vow is training hard
toward making the outcome different in Friday’s Juvenile Fillies, according to
trainer D. Wayne Lukas.

That training took the form
of another 1 1/2m gallop over the main track Thursday morning, her last serious
exercise before the Juvenile Fillies.

Dreaming of Julia/ Kauai Katie – The two Stonestreet Stable stars spent their first
night at Santa Anita Wednesday and galloped over the main track Thursday
morning with trainer Todd Pletcher supervising.

“Both galloped over the track extremely well
this morning, showing no ill effects from the trip,” Pletcher said. “Basically
they missed one day of training in New York . They jogged in the barn one day.
The owners are blessed with a couple of very talented fillies. Just looking at
the way the race set up, and the way both fillies were doing, we felt like it
was the right thing to do to give them both the opportunity in this spot.”

The fillies have been
separated to this point, with each was compiling a 3-for-3 record. The homebred
Dreaming of Julia won the 1m Frizette in her last start and Kauai Katie took
the 6f Matron.

“Dreaming of Julia is very
straightforward, what I would consider the perfect blend of her sire and dam,”
Pletcher said. “She’s by A.P. Indy out of a dam (Dream Rush) that was very good
at sprints and middle distances, so she’s got a combination of speed and
stamina. I would anticipate two turns would be even better for her.”

Kauai Katie is by Malibu Moon
and a granddaughter of one of Pletcher’s favorite runners, More Than Ready.
Stonestreet put up $490,000 to purchase Kauai Katie in March.

“We kind of liked the way she
rated last time,” Pletcher said. “That’s always a good sign with these young
horses. This is going to be a tough race. We knew that coming in.”

The trainer downplayed some
recent reports that Executiveprivilege was not training as well as she should
have been coming up to this championship race.

“Her works have been good,” Baffert
said. “I know some clocker said she didn’t work so well one time, but she’s
doing fine. She’s fit. She’s plenty fit. I wouldn’t put her out there if she
wasn’t and I didn’t think she could handle the load. Different horses train
different ways. Not all of them run to the way they train. Not all of them
train to the way they run. But she’s been training fine.”

Spring in the Air – Even though Spring in the Air has won a grade I race around two turns
and at the same distance of the Juvenile Fillies, the Alcibiades winner has yet
to compete on the dirt, which does not concern Mark Casse.

“We plotted this all out
ahead of time. All of my horses were at Churchill Downs training on dirt for a
month before they came here,” Casse said. “But you never know with young horses
until they do it for the first time.”

A winner in two of her four
starts, the daughter of Spring At Last has raced on Polytrack twice and was a
strong second on the grass to Spring Venture, whom Casse will run in the
Juvenile Fillies Turf.